See... I told you I would continue this soon...
Still... I'm really sorry for not updating this earlier...
But, thanks to all your lovely reviews, I decided to continue!
Cause I love you girls! (and guys, maybe there's one or two reading this) *-*
"So… Are we all here?"
"I think so desu~..."
"Ok... Suigintou, the Mercury Lamp, created in Paris?"
The gothic doll, sitting on the window raised her hand.
"I still don't believe half of this crap, but I'm curious..."
"Kanaria, the Canary Bird, created in Rome?"
Sitting on the desk, the small doll also raised her hand.
"I'm here kashira~!"
"Suiseiseki, the Jade Star, born in Amsterdam?"
Standing still, right next to her sleeping sister, she raised her hand.
"I really hope this works desu~... Whatever this is..."
"Souseiseki, the Lapis Lazuli Star, is here... Shinku, the Crimson Ruby, born in England?"
Being carried by Jun, she also raised her hand.
"Yes, I'm here."
"Hinaichigo is here... And..." the girl looked to the doll next to her "Kirakishou is as well... So we may now start The Trial..."
Slowly, she opened the small box that she was carrying, and, really carefully, like if she was handing an explosive, she grabbed one of the Rosa Mystica... With her other hand, she grabbed the other.
"I, the sister of Alice Rozen, the Angel on Earth, and of Thomas Rozen, the Dollmaker, command both of you, seeds of the magical plant, to return to your former owners."
Both the Rosa Mystica flew over them, stopping above Hinaichigo's and Souseiseki's bodys.
"To allow your entrance, we shall pass The Trial."
Something started to gain shape above their heads. It was a dream door.
"A dream door? Whose dream is opening desu~?"
"Please allow me to enter the dream all the seeds carry within themselves. Please allow me to start The Trial and help these lost souls to find their way home. Seeds of the magical plant that gives us all life... Allow The Trial to begin."
Then she turned to the others.
"Suiseiseki, you won't be able to enter this dream. But you'll be able to watch it... Just like a movie, you'll all be able to see what's happening inside this dream... This dream isn't a normal dream. I don't have time to explain right now, but this is like the Rosa Mystica dream... It is The Trial..."
Then she turned to Jun.
"Jun, if I don't come back... Take care of Kirakishou..."
And she jumped into the dream door, which immediately turned into some sort of window...
Now they all could see what was happening... But they could only see, inside of that window... Sky...
A bright blue sky, too perfect to be real... And then, she appeared. Laura looked like she was praying in the middle of that sky.
"Suiseiseki, can't we hear what she's saying?" Jun asked. He really wanted to know what Laura was whispering.
"Hum, let me see desu~... Amethyst Dream!" her spirit appeared next to her "Can you? Oh, thank you desu~"
They started to hear everything she was saying.
"Now... Come to this world... Let The Trial... Begin!"
Next to her appeared Hinaichigo and Souseiseki... And they were... Awake.
"Sou...Souseiseki!" yelled Suiseiseki, tears flowing from her eyes.
"Hum... What's happening? Where am I?" Souseiseki looked around "Who are you?"
"Souseiseki!" yelled Hinaichigo "You're awake! And... I'm awake too! How's that possible?"
"Yeah... Now that I think about it... I don't feel the Rosa Mystica inside me... Yet I'm awake... How in this world is that possible... And... Where are we? When are we? And who are you?"
Laura looked at her.
"Memories are like the wind... Always moving... And... Even thought sometimes you can't notice the wind... Like now, for example... The wind is there... Memories... Are just the same... Even thought you can't think about them, you actually remember... Don't worry... This is The Trial of Wind... The memories will start flowing in no time... Yes... Because how would be able to keep on living if you can't even face your own past and acept it?"
"What? What are you talking about?"
"See for yourself." She said, and she moved her hand. Out of nowhere, the wind started to blow, and images started to appear on the sky.
When Souseiseki saw them, she gasped... The first one was... Something that had happened a long, long time ago... She was in a room with Suiseiseki... They were talking about something... That didn't matter...
"Souseiseki... I've been thinking desu~..." Suiseiseki was saying.
"About what?"
"Well... The... The Alice Game desu~..."
"When aren't we thinking about it?"
"But... But... I realized something..."
"What?"
Watching that memory from behind the window, Suiseiseki knew what she was going to say... And now she knew what Laura meant with "face your own past"...
"I... I love you Souseiseki desu~!" Suiseiseki from the memory said, throwing her arms around her twin sister, crying.
Souseiseki, floating on the sky wanted to cover her eyes, to stop listening, to stop watching...
"Stop it... Stop it!" she whispered...
Jun was wondering why was Souseiseki so disturbed... Until he saw what she did in that past memory...
As Suiseiseki was clinging to her, like if holding for her own life, Souseiseki took a step backwards and slapped her.
"Don't ever talk to me like that again! We might be sisters, we might even be twins, but we both know that in the end one of us is going to kill the other! So don't talk like if there is another way to become Alice, don't talk like that! Suiseiseki..."
Souseiseki covered her ears, not wanting to hear what she had said so many years ago once again...
"I hate you!" she yelled to her twin sister.
That memory vanished, and Souseiseki hugged herself, trembling.
"Suiseiseki... I'm sorry... I never really mean that... I just didn't want to face the truth... Suiseiseki..."
"You had that on your mind all the time, didn't you? Everytime you saw your twin sister, you remember how she looked shattered that time you yelled at her, saying that you hated her... So you hide that, deep down on your memories... But still... You were never able to say sorry to her... Now... Souseiseki... Centuries might have gone by, but you still feel as guilty as you felt the day you yelled at her... You made a mistake... You didn't told her your true feelings... But... What is in the past in actually in the past... She already forgave you a long time ago... I believe that she had already forgetten about this... Don't you think that it's time to... Forgive yourself as well?"
Souseiseki looked shattered.
"I... I never meant what I said there... I've always loved my sister... I... I never apologized to her... Not even after all this time..."
"Hey... If you stay here forever, buried inside all of your memories... You'll never even see her again... Don't you think that it's time to... Forgive yourself?"
Souseiseki lifted her head, looking right into Laura's gentle eyes.
"May... Maybe you're right... And... I don't want to see just Suiseiseki, I want to see everyone again..."
"That's the spi..." a new memory was appearing in the sky. This time, Souseiseki did not recongnize it, nor did anyone behind the window. Well, Kirakishou did, but she only sighed.
It was a boy. He had red hair and brown eyes. But, nothing really special about him.
"Hey, don't run ahead! You know I'm slow!" a girl appeared next to him. It was Laura.
"Sorry, I got carried away... Come with me, I want to show you a special place!" he said, getting hold of her hand. She blushed.
The real Laura, on the other hand, looked horrified.
But the memory kept on going...
It showed images after images... Kisses, embraces, even some more... naughty things... It was all with that boy and Laura...
Suddenly, her voice started to say something, even if none of the Lauras were speaking...
"It was all so fast... Five years... It looked like a second..."
You could now see a memory were it shown Laura, looking exactly the same she had looked in all the other memories, looking exactly the same that she was looking now. The boy had grown.
"You... You couldn't possibly understand... I... I must go!"
"Then I'll go with you!"
"Please... Please, let me go... I... I'll always love you... But... You must find someone else!"
She was retreating, but she tripped on her skirt and she fell backwards. The boy got closer to her... He was looking at her.
"The day I met you... Five years ago... You also tripped backwards... You had that exact same face... You look just like you did, you know? Wait... No... You truly haven't changed... How is that possible..."
"That was what I was trying to tell you... We can't be together... Because I'm frozen in time... I'm... Just like a doll..."
And she ran away... The memory fade...
"I... I saw him getting married... I was there when he had his first child, when his parents died... When he died... Then I ran away, to another town... But... I'll always love him..." Laura definitely wasn't okay.
"Laura, why are you going trough this trial as well? Aren't we the ones who should be being tested nano~?" asked Hinaichigo
Laura was still hugging herself, but she looked to Hinaichigo.
"How do you know my name?"
"Hum... I don't know nano~... I just knew it... Like if I've met you before... A long time ago... I... I remember being with you in a kitchen... And... You were making unyu! That was the first time I ate unyu nano~!"
"Oh... Ichigo Daifuku... You couldn't pronouce it, so you just said unyu... You still have some memories left... Probably you remember me as well, right Souseiseki?" Laura looked like she was recovering from the shock.
"Laura... There is a weird thing in my mind, but it doesn't make sense... I... I had long hair, but straight, unlike Suiseiseki, and I was complaining because I didn't like it to be long..."
"Oh, I remember... You weren't originally planned to have short hair, you know? Since you were twins and all... You didn't wear shorts either... Your clothes were the same as your sister's, just that blue instead of green... One day, you tripped on your dress and you were truly mad. So you decided to become a tomboy... I cut your hair and I sew you new clothes... I'm surprised that that is what you remember..."
They stood there for some minutes, waiting for HinaIchigo's trial to begin.
"Why isn't anything happening?" asked Kanaria on the other side of the window.
"I... I'm not sure.. But I think that HinaIchigo doesn't have anything that horrible in her past... Afterall, she is very childish and innocent..." said Kirakishou in her soft voice.
Probably "The Trial" thought that as well, since the wind started blowing again... And they started to fall.
Laura didn't look surprised. On the other hand, Souseiseki and HinaIchigo were screaming loud enough to be heard outside the shop.
The window turned black with smoke.
The two dolls and the girl were standing on a floating rock... And they were sorrounded by lava.
"Welcome..." Laura said, her voice looking tired "To the Trial of Fire."